‘The Long Walk’: Read The Screenplay That Turns Stephen King’s 1970s Novel Into An Allegory For Our Time
Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the year’s most talked-about movies continues with The Long Walk, Lionsgate’s psychological thriller from director Francis Lawrence, adapted for the screen by JT Mollner based on Stephen King’s 1979 novel. The story is set in a post-war, dystopian America where a military despot known as the Major (Mark Hamill) oversees an annual televised contest of pure will. In this brutal […]
Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the year’s most talked-about movies continues with The Long Walk, Lionsgate’s psychological thriller from director Francis Lawrence, adapted for the screen by JT Mollner based on Stephen King’s first novel. The story is set in a post-war, dystopian America where a military despot known as the Major (Mark Hamill) oversees an annual televised contest of pure will. In this brutal […]